SpaceX launched a mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) from Florida's Space Coast early Sunday morning ...

SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit with the SES-9 communications satellite. We're awaiting word on an attempted first stage landing. The Falcon 9's second stage is in ...

A few seconds after the first stage nailed its second landing, the Falcon 9 second stage’s single engine shut down as planned. Eighteen minutes later, the engine fired again for about one minute ...

It is owned by Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES. The first-stage booster was attempting a soft landing on a drone ship called Of Course I Still Love You, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean ...

After landing, stages can be reflown on subsequent launches. A two-stage rocket, Falcon 9 first flew in June 2010 and Monday’s launch will mark its forty-fourth flight.

The orbit that THAICOM 8 was thrown into today is what made the landing especially challenging. The satellite was put into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), an elliptical orbit that places ...

Israel successfully launched Dror-1, its advanced national communications satellite, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Built ...

A SATELLITE is intended to turn into a giant fireball as scientists bring the craft down from Earth's orbit in stages. The European Space Agency (ESA) said the Aeolus satellite will be guided on ...

Though the launch was to put a satellite into orbit, most of the attention was on the first-stage booster, which made its 23rd launch and recovery, tying a record with two other SpaceX boosters.

In December 2023, Alpha placed a Lockheed Martin satellite in the wrong orbit after it experienced an anomaly with its second stage. In July 2024, Alpha successfully launched eight CubeSats for NASA.